Newark-on- Trent

I left London for a year with just a bag, limited financial resources and the name, Chana Dubinski, familiar to me from my Zambian childhood, as the Lithuanian/Jewish part of me. I wanted to throw open an unknowable and chance trajectory and to allow other manifestations of myself to breathe. After 3 month of peripatetic wanderings and through a chance incident, I decided to live in Newark-on-Trent, a small town in the Midlands, creating a different, unfamiliar life structure. I lived there for 18 months manifesting a new way of life, not acknowledging or mentioning any of my former work as an artist. This life became as real and engaged as my London life forming friendships and integrating into various communities. Unexpectedly, another aspect was that I reconnected strongly with my childhood in Zambia where I was born and lived, until briefly attending Cape Town University and then coming to England at 18 years old to read Fine Art at Reading University. I made work in the cottage I lived in, aroused by these childhood recollections and reflections. For the first time, at the private view of A Transpective, local people and old friends met. It was a space that felt to me like skiing on parallel realities. A Transpective, as a name, was about time as fluid, forwards and backwards communications, bridges and recognitions across different space/times. The artist/photographer Gordon Currie captured several, often ethereal, portraits of Chana Dubinski in Riverside Cottage, where she lived.